Bob LeChevalier wrote:
>>JDay123 at BellSouth.net (Jd) wrote:
>>Your view that the Talmud is a type of codification of the oral
>>Torah is off by one order of magnitude in that the earliest
>>document of rabbinic literature is the "Mishnah" not the Talmud.
>>The Mishnah is part of the Talmud.
And your point?
>>>>... which should immediately make anyone interested in truth ask the
>>>>question "what is the gospel?" if they previously thought that the
>>>>"gospel" is only relevant to NT teachings. Obviously, the element
>>>>of certain truth is contained within the phraseology "word preached"
>>>>and is not limited to NT theology (or scientific review which is
>>>>limited by uncertainties). Otherwise, how could many of the OT
>>>>characters have aquired the status of "saints" as is revealed in
>>>>both OT and NT scriptures?
>>>>>I don't think any OT characters are considered "saints". They are
>>>considered "patriarchs" or "prophets".
>>>>Spoken as a true victim of Popery. I've heard that some saints get
>>voted into sainthood by the "council of divines" 500 years or so
>>after they've died.
>>So now I am a Catholic? Sorry, but no. My father's family is
>Catholic and he studied in seminary but turned away from the church.
>I knew nothing of Catholicism until I was an adult. My most recent
>baptism was Southern Baptist (which doesn't accept anyone else's
>baptism as valid).
>>lojbab
Then why don't you know about OT saints?
Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their
beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a
two-edged sword in their hand; To execute vengeance upon the
heathen, and punishments upon the people; To bind their kings with
chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute upon them
the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the
Lord. (Psalms 149:5-9)
Jd